Man Pays $200,000 To Save Fake Online Girlfriend 464
An anonymous reader writes "A 48-year-old Illinois man has experienced an online scam that was particularly devastating, both financially and emotionally. A woman he believed to be his online girlfriend turned out to be a fake, and his money has disappeared with her. The scam was recently revealed because he went to the police asking for help to rescue the woman, insisting that she had been kidnapped in London. The online 'relationship' between the two began over two years ago, during which he wired about $200,000 to several different bank accounts in Nigeria, Malaysia, England, and the US."
Re:Can this be real? (Score:4, Informative)
How do people this stupid have $200,000 to begin with?
I guess you've never been to northern Canada.
Any smart person would refuse to work: outdoors in -30C weather, in the middle of nowhere, where you can lose an arm because someone forgot to properly chain a pipe down, and the only thing to do during your time off is drink and do drugs in an all male labor camp.
If you're willing to endure all that, then you can make $120k+ per year all while still being just smart enough not to wet yourself.
(All the guys dumb enough to wet themselves in -30C weather died of hypothermia)
He saved money (Score:3, Informative)
If it was a real woman, she would have cost him more than that in marriage
Re:Thinking saves money!!! (Score:2, Informative)
Insightful? Really???
The GP's post was actually a decent paraphrase of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need".
And yes, some modern progressives may not be marxists, but I sure wouldn't say its that far off base...